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by Qub3d 5y ago
> Now, the question is “why would I trust this?” to which I answer: I trust them to safeguard my passwords. Isn't that tautological? I trust 1Password more than LastPass simply because you _must_ pay for it. Freemium upsells are a d
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by Qub3d 5y ago
They have added custom fields at some point, because my AWS is autofilling the account ID with one: https://i.imgur.com/Ark4XH9.png
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I wonder, if you are self-hosted, have you tried the rust implementation? https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden It may have better auditing (though I confess I just pay for hosted so I can't say for sure).
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Thus why "I'm sure its fine for most situations". I just want to make sure that when we're throwing around CDC stuff, we're doing it in context. Goodness knows enough people are taking expert snippets and doing terr
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I'm sure its fine for most situations, but you should be aware: below that entry it states that elastomeric respirators (like you are using with P100) are not included in that category: > Until more is understood on exhalation val
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I'd say you're already at one: Hacker News. Otherwise, IRC chatrooms maybe?
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I don't want to apologize for those statements -- its clear that they were wrong. However, I do think that originally they were genuinely a result of a mental breakdown. As for the "Q is legit" statement, he quit Minecraft be
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Notch's story is bittersweet to me. He ended up bowing out from the game and largely retreating from the tech space entirely. Lotta reasons for that; but mainly -- as a wildly successful entrepreneur he suddenly found himself to be a h
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Kessler syndrome is definitely a problem. I've heard SpaceX claims to deal with it by putting their satellites in an orbit that requires periodic boosting to stay put -- if they don't, satellites decay and de-orbit after a few yea
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by Qub3d 5y ago
The maxim I was told by my dad, who I think got it from someone like Warren Buffet, is that, "In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it is a weighing machine" So for the day-to-day, week-to-
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by Qub3d 5y ago
> The surprise has been that inflation hasn't occurred outside of asset prices. But it has occurred. People were originally calling it "short term" but its clear that the 6-7% inflation seen at the tail end of 2021 was ver
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Web3 is not the Early Internet(quentb.com)
3 points by Qub3d 5y ago|0 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Nope. I actually signed up for the free trial while I was out of state in December so I could quickly do a couple things and only bring along my MacBook (complete a few daily objectives on my MMO of choice). I don't think streaming gam
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by Qub3d 5y ago
> it also means the feature being worked on is becoming too big/too much in conflict to be kept alive separate for long That's a really great point and something a colleague pointed out to me when I was musing about this. Anoth
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I am not trying to put myself out here as an expert; far from it. Rather, I wanted to share how I've been doing things and seeing if people think, "yeah, that's pretty much it" or "no its totally wrong". For th
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Considering the Philosophy of Git Squashing(quentb.com)
1 points by Qub3d 5y ago|4 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Letters from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the SPLC, Greenpeace, EDF, etc etc appearing in my mailbox and asking for money, suspiciously about 1-2 weeks after I signed up for an event. That's how.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Indeed, the epitome of Chesterton's fence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_...
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by Qub3d 5y ago
It looks like another project from Fight for the Future [0]. They got their start with the original SOPA/PIPA blackout protests. They've done some legitimately great stuff. Unfortunately they've clearly listened to the same g
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Hi there! Sorry if there is confusion; it was several years ago and I don't remember it word-for-word -- you're probably right about Chinese Taipei. The student was very, very gracious and anglicized a lot of things when translati
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Lebron James comes to mind: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/lebron-james-angers-hong-...
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by Qub3d 5y ago
My family hosted a Taiwanese exchange student when I was in high school. One day, he and I were out seeing the town. He discovered a Chinese Tea house in an out-of-the-way corner, and we stopped in. The owner, a Chinese expat, greeted us en
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by Qub3d 5y ago
> We have to evacuate Taiwan, a population the size of LA, by boat. While the Taiwan situation isn't great, this seems a bit of a leap. It also completely disregards the reality of a situation like that. You can't just relocate
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by Qub3d 5y ago
NPR's Planet Money just did a great look at this: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049786108/nice-work-week-if-... Its very interesting--the research they present suggests that people worked much l
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by Qub3d 5y ago
> It is wealth in its own terms that is created by government out of nothing based solely upon its future ability to tax. The units may vary, but the value remains the same. You get more dollars, but they are worth less, as the purchas
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Since the dollar is an entirely Fiat currency, its supply is dictated purely at the whim of the U.S. Government. This means that they can turn on the presses (or these days, make some keystrokes) and instantly have as much money as they w
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Fair point, apologies if I came off a bit harsh. I'm just really frustrated in the direction Google has taken with this whole thing. I understand the average user probably shouldn't be able to easily hand over so much control to e
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by Qub3d 5y ago
The safari change absolutely kneecapped content blockers. Ublock dropped it[0], and the remaining few providers, like AdGuard, have to do all sorts of trickery[1] to get even close to the same performance. If you're going to argue this
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Consider that LVT prevents urban sprawl (which happens because speculation drives people out of urban centers). But yes, that is a consideration that must be made. Georgism is a very logical, mathematical train of thought, and as such does
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by Qub3d 5y ago
You should really give the original book review that preceded this a read.[0] > assumes the usual economic myths of a fixed amount of money Not at all. Henry George's original ideas included defining money as essentially an IOU poin

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